Ezra 10:17
15 (Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite, opposed this plan.)
16 So the exiles did as proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, each of them identified by name, to represent their families. On the first day of the tenth month they launched the investigation,
and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.
18 Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
19 They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.
- KJV
- And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
- WEB
- They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
- ASV
- And they made an end with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
- DARBY
- And they ended with all the men that had taken foreign wives by the first day of the first month.
- BLB
- And they finished with all the men who had caused to dwell foreign wives by the first day of the first month.
- ÅB
- og de ble ferdig med alle de menn som hadde tatt fremmede kvinner til hustruer, til den første dag i den første måned.
- OTB
- og innen den første dagen i den første måneden hadde de avsluttet behandlingen av alle mennene som hadde giftet seg med utenlandske kvinner.
- B1930
- og de blev ferdig med alle de menn som hadde tatt fremmede kvinner til hustruer, til den første dag i den første måned.